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Mediastinal and subcutaneous cervical emphysema caused by perforating sigmoid cancer. Case report
1Department of Surgery 1, Kommunehospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Acta Chirurgica Scandinavica
|September 1, 1988
Abstract:
A case of mediastinal and subcutaneous cervical emphysema due to perforation of a sigmoid cancer is presented. Sudden deterioration and development of subcutaneous and mediastinal emphysema in a chronically ill patient with equivocal abdominal signs should alert the examiner to the possibility of retroperitoneal gastrointestinal perforation.